ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the world of work (ILO/AIDS)
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ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the world of work (ILO/AIDS)

Nine of every ten people living with HIV will get up today and go to work."

Juan Somavia, Director-General of the ILO

AIDS is a workplace issue because it has a marked impact on workers, their families and dependants, enterprises and national economies. >More

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  1. A decade of European Support to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

    30 January 2012, Paris, France

    On 31 January 2012, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria celebrates its 10th anniversary in Paris. Mr. J-F Trogrlic, Director, ILO Office for France, is attending the event. Participants include European policy makers, representatives of international organizations, as well as participants from public and private sectors, the research community and non-governmental organizations.

  2. XIX International AIDS Conference

    24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

    ILO/AIDS is participating to the conference which will take place in Washington, D.C. on 22-27 July 2012 under the theme "Turning the Tide Together".

  3. International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA 2011)

    05 December 2011, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    The International Labour Organization (ILO) is organizing and participating in a series of events to highlight the importance of reducing stigma and discrimination in the workplace at ICASA, which opens on Sunday 4 December, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the theme “Own, Scale-up and Sustain”.

  4. ILO commemorates World AIDS Day and celebrates the 10th anniversary of its programme on HIV/AIDS

    01 December 2011,

    ILO officials and representatives of organizations involved in the AIDS response commemorated World AIDS Day and celebrated the 10th anniversary of the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work (ILO/AIDS) at the ILO in Geneva.

Key resources

  1. Recommendation concerning HIV and AIDS and the World of Work, 2010 (No. 200)
    17 June 2010

    The new labour standard is the first human rights instrument to focus on HIV and AIDS in the world of work, and was adopted - by an overwhelming majority - by governments, employers’ and workers’ representatives from ILO member States at the International Labour Conference in June 2010.

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